NATIVE-LED NONPROFIT LIST
Find a Native-led, Native-serving nonprofit to support! Organizations included are eligible to receive tax-deductible, charitable contributions in the U.S.
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ImagiNative Inc.
Our mission: Encouraging our youth to embrace their talent, creativity, and individuality, while strengthening a healthy well-being and cultural identity. We understand that our youth have many talents across the board and we host activities that highlight their skills and offer new experiences. Our latest, ongoing project is our youth magazine ROOTS, which was created to educate, showcase, and engage. This one-of-a-kind publication features Student Spotlights, an Art Gallery, Sports Shout Outs, Classroom Contest, Indigenous History, an Elders Corner, Indigenous Current Events, Health & Wellness and more. We aim to offer diverse reading materials to classrooms so our youth can see themselves reflected in all types of media.
Donate by Mail: 122 Lewis Rd, Lincoln, ND 58504Indian Council of the Elderly
Indian Council of the Elderly, Inc., a 501c3 non-profit, is a licensed charitable and tax-free organization that has been in existence for over 45 years, and currently operates the “All Nations Senior and Cultural Center.” This Center is available to any Senior aged 60 and older and Native Americans 45 and older, primarily dedicated to serving the underserved urban Indian elderly population. We provide hot, nutritious meals in a warm and welcoming atmosphere at our Center three times a week; as well as opportunities for socializing, health education, and other recreational activities. Our overarching goal is to improve the health and living conditions for those Elders who are in greatest need with an emphasis on reducing the isolation of older persons by increasing their socialization and independence in Milwaukee County and community.
Indigenized Energy
Mission- Pursue tribal energy sovereignty through trusting partnerships and innovative programs that grow our collective capacity to unleash the power of renewable energy. With shared values, we work side by-side with tribes to help them pursue energy sovereignty based on their unique conditions, and develop their capabilities to plan, develop, and manage resilient and sustainable energy systems.
Impact- Indigenized Energy works with tribal nations to achieve energy sovereignty, including demonstration projects, workforce development efforts, and tribal utility planning. Through historic native-led energy partnerships, including those with the 14-member Tribal Renewable Energy Coalition, Indigenized Energy continues to pave the path toward energy sovereignty and for the next Seven Generations.
Indigenous Creatives Collective
yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective is an urban, Indigenous, women-led arts nonprofit dedicated to fostering a more equitable, inclusive, and imaginative future in the arts and rematriating 1.5 acres of land in South Seattle, on Coast Salish territories. We design robust, community-driven programs that focus on arts, ecology, and Indigenous values of abundance, inclusion, and care, with the aim of enhancing the health and well-being of Indigenous communities. Our programs offer radically inclusive, trust-based arts and land-based opportunities for Indigenous creatives at every stage of their careers, always paying well above industry standards.
Indigenous Justice Circle
The Indigenous Justice Circle addresses the unique stressors and risks faced by Native American girls, young women, and 2SLGBTQ+ at the intersection of race, gender, age, culture, and socio-economic status. We do this by (1) Addressing MMIWG by reducing the risks of walking between the Native and non-Native worlds. (2) Addressing invisibility, mistrust, racial misunderstanding through early life political and civic participation. (3) Strengthening Indigenous girls’ systems participation, access and influence by involving them in health structure transformation. (4) Providing trauma healing and cultural-spiritual support for justice-involved Native youth. (5) Acknowledging and addressing inter-generational trauma through culturally competent approaches.
Indigenous Lacrosse Alliance
Our mission is to expand access and opportunity for Indigenous communities to play lacrosse and improve the health and well-being of Indigenous youth. Our vision is for all Indigenous youth to have access to the traditional and modern sports of lacrosse and empower them to build healthy Indigenous communities.
Indigenous Language Institute
About Us
The Indigenous Language Institute (ILI) was founded in 1992 as a publicly supported 501(C)3 non-profit organization based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. ILI is a majority Native American and Indigenous led organization, with the Staff and Board of Directors representing nations from across North America.
Mission
The Indigenous Language Institute (ILI) provides vital language related services to Native American nations, tribes, and communities so that their individual identities, traditional wisdom and values pare passed on to future generations in their original languages.
Guiding Philosophy
There is urgency to revitalize Native languages as the small population of Elder speakers is rapidly declining. ILI is dedicated to assist communities to create speakers of the endangered languages that are USED in daily life by all generations.
Our Impact Areas
>Immersion Workshops
>Strategic Language Development Plans for Communities
>In-Community Workshops- Travel directly to indigenous & tribal communities
Indigenous Lifeways
To restore the health and balance for all people and our environment by utilizing traditional knowledge and wisdom, respectful land-based practices, ceremonies and a deep understanding of the dynamics and peoples of our communities.
Indigenous Lifeways is working to revitalize and preserve our native languages, traditions and cultures.